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Between what's been popular in the drum circles and what's come out this year, what music do you expect to see this year?

I can see renewed interest in Daft Punk, with their new songs Doin' it right and Get lucky. I do hope people are sick of duck sauce by now though. I've also been seeing more Grimes lately. What do you think?

Yes, you will hear music. There will be lots of it, and it will be everything you can think of and some you've never heard before.

Forget the pop & dance boxes, there is tons of music to find, once you drag yourself away from the big sound camps at 2 & 10. On those streets you'll hear dance stuff, on the backstreet you can find everything from heavy metal & live Irish music, to country and classical, and everything in between. I think I'll hear something I've never heard before, and that's good enough for me.

It's a camping trip in the desert, not the redemption of the fallen world - Cryptofishist

You could also try leaving your expectations at home. Some of the years I've enjoyed the music the most are the ones where I came in without any expectations, or lists of whose sets I wanted to catch at camp X on night Y.

trilobyte wrote:You could also try leaving your expectations at home. Some of the years I've enjoyed the music the most are the ones where I came in without any expectations, or lists of whose sets I wanted to catch at camp X on night Y.

A good point. That's pretty much how I did it last year, and I was pleasantly surprised even by music I'd heard before but now in a new environment. I still hope for that, but really the point of this thread was more to satiate my anticipation with a drop of speculation(there should be a word for that).

I remember one year I was cruising the sound camps looking for good music to listen to. I happened to stop by opulent temple got bored listening to armin van buuren (I didn't know it was him till later) then wandered into some awesome smaller camp playing the most amazing stuff I've ever heard.

I think every big name act I've made a point of trying to see has been a dissapointment.

i played that tune a few years ago nice and loud as the sun come up one morn..... those of us who stayed up through the night enjoyed it.. i dunno about the people crashing on the couches.. but nobody cares about those people anyways..

lemur wrote:i played that tune a few years ago nice and loud as the sun come up one morn..... those of us who stayed up through the night enjoyed it.. i dunno about the people crashing on the couches.. but nobody cares about those people anyways..